260 Years of First & Last Chances of Man and Machine

When Sir Fazle Abed died on 20 December 2019, the 260th year of Glasgow moral exploration of humans and machines was coming to an end. In the view of Adam Smith Scholars, few if any engineers have made more human sustainable application of machines than Sir Fazle Abed and the billion village women he helped empower from 1970 in their families and communities race to end poverty. That over a billion Asian villagers have ended extreme poverty is the greatest economic miracle at least the way Smithians value the purpose of economics. The uniqueness of the miracle is that for 25 years valiage mothers had no access to machines so they developed the most trusted person to person community networking round life saving skills. Once tech partners started linking in, the vilage mothers were ready to make giant leaps for nature and chld development.

Economistpoor.com associates were privileged to visit Bangladesh 15 times since December 2007 mainly to listen to Fazle Abed. Perhaps uniquely we celebrated the opportunity created by the Japan Ambassadir to Bangladesh to join in 2 brainstorms chaired by Sir Fazle at a time when a kot of civil society was in flux. Sheika Hasina had just forfeited Grameen Bank from Dr Yunus. Abed's response was to double up on future projects that young women could look forward to provided the most sustainable partners were found. For example, he used one of the brainstorms to start inviting Asian Ambassadors to unite 100 universities' graduates in SDG collaboration projects. Since starting Brac University in 2001 he had demonstrated how university blended with digital and community collaboration offered a partnership platform unlike any ever seen before. 

He had shared research of how to expand ultra poverty graduation scaled in Bangladesh to what has become 50 countries and rising at the time of his death. Thats quite a lot of shared work for young economists to linkin everywhere through the UN's SDG decade. And the idea of connecting universities was in the Abedian mind a loving world with deep and diverse opportunity to innovate wherever sustainability challenges mattered.

We invite you to join in draft an updatable book on the most exciting collaborations global village world has ever seen, and the 2020s race to app these at every GPS on planet earth.

Abed's final gift returned to his core belief on education - create a space where children experience love and safety to an early childhood format. All over the world knowledgeable communities and parents are simultaneously recognising early childhood play as a missing opportunity; the "luminaries partnerships" Abed has formed around this education revolution are proof that parents and communities everywhere demand no delays in celebrating this development start for children the world over.

About 50 young journalists, mainly Asian for joyful cultural translations , have helped us search out how Abed's collaborations evolved  over half a century ago from what was potentially his biggest mistake - building 15000 homes for 10000 people in a space so isolated that dozens of mothers were dying of starvation every week. Abed had put his life savings into these homes; Abed not only pivoted but energised servant leadership - entrepreneurail revolution n less -  in designing microfranchise business to end startvation and to empower village mothers to linkin their own village health service. Fortunately his 1960s connections from a decade rising as shell oil companys leading young Asian engineer and chartered accountant helped locate in southern and eastern hemispheres  had to discovered how to produce 10 times more village rice and why veggie microfranchises were also needed as basic rice doesn't have enough vitamins to prevent infants from stunting during their first 1000 days. The first health service networks BRA=Colaboration built were probably what saved Bangladesh (8th largest and very poorest population ever born as a new nation) from being a basket case and why Chinese village mothers wanted to share analogous solutions in their own journey towards women hold up half the sky. Indeed oral rehydration invented in Bangaldesh became the number 1 celebration of Unicef James Grant wherever he led nations uniting around child development . And James reciprocated by sponsoring brac to go nation wide. James asked Abed do you have another core idea for village health services? Abed said continental scaling of vaccination. So anyone who linkedin with brac womens knowledge got to see how to do that too- no worries if vaccination literacy became as vital as other literacies!

What's  amazing about Abed is he practised engineering in a way that revolutionised the morality of development economics and he demonstrated over and over that collaboration not competition is the most valuable dynamic, poorest families empower by community scaled entrepreneurship must race together to sustain. So we hope you will help us improve this book if places and people you love are facing any sustainability crises. 2020s children need us to connect the simplest, lovig and most urgent practices to skill up in. When as Abed's women experienced for 25 years no communications other than people you meet, girl do you need trust, collaboration, focus on what businesses you enetrepreneur locally.: and yes when suddenly new technology partners seek you as they did through fazle abed from 1996, girl do you want machines to make giant leaps for girlkind, down on earth, with nature as your resilient judge.

 

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Is it possible for media or universities to be designed to end poverty?

 Our Definition of Ending Poverty - a world designed so that each next girl or boy born has a good chance at life- in turn this means every community is designed to sustain this goal

History distributed life opportunities very unevenly geographically- even as President Kennedy declared the 1960s goal of racing to the moon - the majority of peoples lived in rural areas without access to electricity and with life expectancies over 20 years below 

Once you know that it should be no surprise that the entrepreneurship's number 1 university partnership of last mile health is closely related to partnering universities in ending poverty; ...

The main ways a billion village women in Asia ended poverty were through microfranchises :

replicating last mile rice production where knowledge linked ti alumni of borlaug increases village productivity several fold

designing last mile health services in bangladesh over 100000 village others made positive cashflow by doordashing 10 non prescription medical items; each mother had a route of 300 homes to visit weekly; over time she because the most trusted person for medical news such as when to get vaccinated

It wasnt until 1996 solar and mobile partners came to villages that village networking could be anything other than person to person; after that both internet and university could be designed to both connect partners COLLAB platforms and both microfranchise specifications and  deeper research - see these 36 collaborations which have turned brac into both the largest ngo partnership and the number 1 universities of 1 early childhood play, 2 last mile medicine, 3 ultra poor financials services...download one page guide 

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partnership links 

U of Last Mile Health

U of Early Childhood

University of End Poverty

Women Univeristy of triangularising : end poverty, grow middle claas, go green

refs

 Journal of New economics- G;asgow University- friends of Adam Smith Scholar

EconomistPoor.com   EconomistDiary.com

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Between founding in 1843 to 1990 The London Economist overarching editorial purpose was mediating end of poverty.Its sub-editor Norman Macrae 1947-1988 was also biographer of John Von Neumann and advanced the logic of The Economist December 1976 that designing every community as a thriving place to ne born into would need bottom-up transformation in which biggest corporates and governments were likely to pose the greatest compound risks to the 21st C celebrating the first sustainability generation

why are partners in university of early childhood p;ayschools huge jobs opportunity of sustainability generation

 formats for eg kids 3 to 6 year olds show wide variations in outcomes but the good ones are fairly easy to benchmark now that abed university has 15 yera learning curve

hgoal 1 create a space in which kids and teacher love each other- have safe space; enjoy peer to peer events like circular sing songs

make sure teacher is respected by whole community 

make sure tehre is a fullstructural program - playbooks which are understood for their learning content (eg montessori is about 90 yeras int this)

thetre are also some special and some magic additions

specials if some or all kids are under huge stress (eg refugees) then there is now a lot of transferable knowhow on why this is the urgent stage to inetrvene and help reset child's school expereince

magic we now know that if for example children are still having readinfg difficulty - there is a 30 hour intervention (90 days of 20 minute ie abou one term to resolve this )- no child should leave at age 6 illiterate; this also means chhildren start with much more equality (good for everyone) at primary school

-there are huge adcanatge to community parents teachers as well as kids if best way of playschool is applied

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poart 2 over last 14 yera we have received mire and more reports all of the world that half of kids are not going to find jobs unless they havenew abilities - eg enetrepreneurial and financial literacy wjasts jhappened is that classrook schools are gerareed t age of big employers that icreasingly doesnt exist; class room schools are not geared to amximsing apprenticeshops or community engagement even though these are where 21st c jobs are increasigly found

most skils now need esxpereintial practice- while we know a mistcian needs her own eperientual learning, its just as true of any use of technology or any perfor,ace in a service economy

by focusing the whole world on the emnw opportunity of early childhood we can resent relationships between school systems communite9s etachers kids and make sure that where needed all ages of schooling are redesigned

if you look at educational chpaters in 1984's 2025 report you will see much more exploration on why rechnology required chnage to schools; eleders have left it late not continuous belnding real and digital until covid came along- nows the time to make sure we seriously help everyone redesign including making sure teachers have time to relearn

if you look at antonio gutteres proposal to hold youth futuers summit in 2023 - the advantage will go to places that take the urgent opportunity to join in designing co-creative schooling processes which are simly at teh heart of playschool

 is anyone's knowhow more important to sustainability generation than the late great fazle abed? download this 1 page document to tour 36 collaboration networks he and a billion poorest women developed over half a century- use our 36 index system to linkin who's working on solutions he would celebrate

download one page guide

from economistafrica.com check out this jack ma 2021 champions connecting with abed alumni subnetworks

smart climate village collabs 5.5

james grant world class public health colleges for poorest 4.6

chapter synopsis 3 health

 Chapter 3 Core to nation building of Bangladesh's fisrt 50 years was raising life expectancy from 25 below to close to world norms through maximising last mile health service capacity with collaboration focus on affordable life-shaping solutions for infants and mothers

 While the new nation of Bangladesh wasnot known for world class inventions in 1971, it did have one medical solution that would rock the world of pediatrics. In poor tropical (humid) nations up to a third of infants die of diarrhea. If a mother knows (Oral Hydration) how to mix boiled water, sugar and salt in correct proportions she can save her infants life. While this invention was discovered in the East Pakisan cholera lab, nobody had found a way to market a potentially zero-cost cure. The networking of this across the whole rural nation of Bangladesh and over to China was to be what the first 3 head office employees of brac found partners to action network principally Unicef’s James Grant who was overjoyed both to fund brac’s nationwide oral rehydration educational campaign to every village mother and make his own life’s work that of storytelling OR to every developing nation leader.

During brac’s first 14 years Abed's focus was designing business microfranchises; accepting a huge grant like UNICEF’s was the exception. The opportunity from brac wining the un year of the child competition and it was what extended brac’s rural womens networking from the 100000 person metavillage (see chapter 5) to practically the whole rural nation. Almost as miraculous as Oral Rehydration is the first health service microfranchise Abed designed – a sort of doordash of 12 non prescription medicines franchised as a weekly visit to 300 homes per village mother making a living as a para-health servant. This also led to these mothers (which grew into 80000 village businees-women) being the most trusted guide to all sorts of health happenings.  Read on - chapter 3 coming soon

synopsis chapter 1 financial services to end poverty

  Chapter 1 Ending poverty with financial services

Synopsis – over 50 years Abed designed financial services to connect all of the nation’s value chain of banking so that the very smallest business owner was included in affordable loans and good savings provided she worked hard and met her community’s life shaping needs. In 1971, when Bangladesh began as a new nation, 90% of people were rural. – most rural men were unbanked; in the case of rural women almost zero enjoyed financial services. From village banking for microfranchisees to city banking for SMEs and first generation citizens from rural to international remittances half a century has seen human development around a lot of financial service segmentation- Thanks to Abed those families starting with the least were never forgotten. Remarkably bkash.com the world’s largest cashless banking system in terms of user population was one of the most recent consequences of partnering those who agreed with Abed’s purpose of banking as intergenerational in exponential impact and thus core to collaboratively celebrating sustainability goals

Chapter 4 EDUCATION Synopsis

 

Chapter 4 Education designed to value's the (girl/boy) child's life, love of self, collaborative teamwork, communal dignity of everyone as an action learner and livelihood co-creator

Most of 21^st Century brac’s hundred thousand people are skills trainers distributed across rural Bangladesh who value Paulo Freire culture of service learning -indeed St Francis’ quest that female followers practice community health servants and male followers celebrate being nature’s deepest connectors; of course, here are a few engineers too; but I can’t remember having met a bureaucrat in the organization that Abed facilitated. Nowhere is data deeper than when you ensure you are always searching out what the poorest need to be included in the future   

Frankly speaking the foundation of brac around skills trainers started from Abed’s biggest mistake. As one of Asia’s leading young engineers, in 1972 he used his life savings to build 15000 homes for 100000 people whose region had been flattened by the war of independence. Bangladesh is a crowded nation but in other ways Abed’s metavillage 5.1 was one of the most disconnected space in the tropics. No electricity, no engines of any kind.  No sooner than this was built than Abed found dozens of women were dying each week of starvation; scores on infants were dying from dehydration. The desperate “educational” need was to develop business micro franchises in food production and last mile health services- and to train village mothers to operate these with positive cash flows however small but compounding positively

Thus 4.1 WOMENS LIVELIHOOD TRAINING – Through microfranchise design 1.1 and training village mothers’ productive community building to end poverty and actioning sustainability goals started what has become civil society’s most collaborative and largest 21^st C partnership network

Bangladesh was born 8^th largest and poorest nation 90% rural ie villagers without access to electricity. So women empowered action learning networks were all person to person. About 15 years into Bangladesh’s development village mothers could afford to demand village schooling for their children.

4.2 PRIMARY Brac built the largest non-government primary school system – over 40000 one room schools in little more than a decade.  Village mothers operated these schools using brac’s own learning materials. Above all Abed designed in a loving environment for kids t experience but at age 11 moist outperformed city schools run by the government. Designing many children’s  only 6 years of learning made it important to add in “missing curricula”: financial literacy is paractised at 2^nd grade onwards; because brac village mothers deliver most of the last mile health services, health and safety practices are bult into the culture of being a brac student.

4.3 PARTNERS IN SECONDARY – GIRLS JOBS APPRENTICESHIPS PLUS. For various reasons including millennium goals focus on primary schools, Abed could not assemble funds fordesigning secondary schools. Instead he built mainly girls apprentice clubs to partner libaries as well as secondary school scholarships. Brac’s community culture maximised livelihood support for children/families that it linkedin

4.4 UNIVERSITY. 1996: In the second quarter of a century of Brac and Abed’s work tech partners in the form of solar, mobile started to come to the villages. Abed started up brac university. Everything brac and village women empowered networks could be updated there, and much more including the request probably first made by Mrs Stave Jobs that Abed work out which of Bangladesh women’s solutions could be extended to other countries. So, while the university aimed to be sustainability’s best national university, abed wanted to design solutions that graduates of collaborative sdg universities could apply the world over.

4.5 ECP. Early Childhood Playschools were a gap in education all over the world. So, brac university offered Asia’s first masters in ECP. Giving children the earliest experience of a loving space to developm has special advantages in places brac works from the poorest villages to refugee situations. Partners in Early Childhood Playschools can bring world class psychological inputs; and indeed, clarify why brain science supports action learning as the most effective method in so many skills from arts to computer coding to microentrepreneurship.

4.6 Luminaries of Education, Collaboration and Urgent Sustainability Generation. Anything humanity doesn’t yet know how to do- including living sustainably with nature- can only be massively solvable by Education. Before he died, Abed passed on the idea if education luminaries to Hong Kong and tech billionaire Charles Yidan and his newly emerging 4-hemispher education foundation: Yidan Prize & Yidan Luminaries. Luminaries connect practitioners if education with practitioners of anything that can be a solution youth need to be the first SD Generation. each year as well as celebrating new prize winners, luminaries are connecting 4-hemisphere stages for celebrating advances of 360 degree education – today and discipline including tech wizards can positively interact with bringing up the younger half of the world as first SDG generation. For example, Yidan’s director of partnerships is also entrepreneur in residence at Stanford. From Bangladesh to Hong Kong to Stanford to Cambridges (Boston and England) to Oxford to Wuhan let girls and boys joy of co-creating shine.

Chapter 5 - Designing Sustainability's 6 Decades of Collaboration Platforms Sustaining Women Empowered Community

related synopses chapter 1 finance ; chapter 2 feed ; chapter 3 health;  chapter 4 educate 

Chapter 5 Designing meta-partnerships for community’s most exciting collaborations in sustainability

Synopsis Goal 5 Partner collaborations with Abed’s Billion Community ABC: NEWS – New Economics Womens Sustainability

If you were privileged to be a fly on the wall in any of the 50 years that Asia’s leading young oil company engineer (Fazle Abed) turned to suppirting village women end extreme poverty (starting 1970- cyclone kills million people around Fazle Abed ; 20^th dec 2019 Abed’s last day on earth) you would have heard future debates on who in the world would join us in not just relieving this urgent crisis but empowering women to develop sustainable futures for their next generation

Over the half century, we identify these as 6 most exciting compasses (each multiplying development possibilities) which Abed as Moral Engineer invited partners to co-create -The Economist's 1970s  entrepreneurial revolution quest in Abed's case so that a billion poorest women agented the end of poverty (apart from preventing extinction of all of us - the greatest miracle any economist will ever get a window into)

5.1 100000 personmetavillage – as far away from the first 210 years of humans and machines as you could find on earth in 1972. (Building 15000 homes with his life’s savings was in one sense Abed’s biggest mistake-- no sooner than this community was built than he found dozens of village mothers dying of famine in the village pathways each week – why hadn’t he focused first on the action learning challenge of designing village mothers’ micro franchises of food security and last mile health services – each day he failed to attract sustainable investment partners was a death trap for a few more village mothers)

5.2 Billion Girls Collabnetworking Fortunately the same sense of urgency was going on in tropical village China when women were also being told they were now responsible for equaling male productivity. The most exciting micro franchise swaps started – Chinese mothers wanted to learn oral rehydration, the Chinese had the rice seed most closely adapted to Bangladesh’s most unusual seasons/ecologies. Every entrepreneurial compass to end poverty was worth experimentally swapping apart from financing which for obvious reasons had different sources – compass 2 agricultural food security, compass 3 last mile health, compass 4 skills education, compass 5 100% women inclusion in village productivity. Extraordinarily 25 years before the UN declared sustainability development goals a billion Asian women knew what their life’s work needed to be adapted round!

5.3 Brac Internet -giant leap for rural girl-kind– 1996 saw bracnet brought by Japanese and Silicon Valley partners

5.4 Brac & Asia's 100 SDG University Partnership -What a double leap for mother earth – 2001 Abed partners start Asian's new university movement –aimed at attracting the world of researchers and data mapping most linked to the bottom 2 billion women and mens development. In launching a University in Dhaka in 2001 , Brac was also seeking collaborations wherever universities wanted their new graduates to scale up local worldwide solutions (see eg early childhood schools or ultra poverty graduation) that 50 million or more people urgently needed to get back onto sustainability orbits. The 21st C had commenced with Abed feeling a double sense pressure – he could see new tech accelerating impacts in Bangladesh that put brac in a business race to complete nationwide value chains but Mrs Steve Jobs had also asked him at a millennial goals party: why don’t you serve/share your goal's solutions with the rest of women's world? Sustainability world's most collaborative universities was to be the way to keep this intergenerational and inter-hemisphere commitment practical.  

5.5 Climate smart-adaptability village networks- we talk a lot about sustainability smart city exchanges and heck do we need deep trust in mediating that – but don’t forget village women worlds also needs to travel through the last decade when preventing extinction is possible

5.6 zoom my last chances up scotty- perhaps there is poetic climate justice that the 260^th year of what the heck did Glasgow start up around machines became a blended mediation where at least as much was being innovated in borderless zooms as the leaders thrones physically situated in Glasgow – the greatest human interest story continues at ecop26.com and where are you linking in from

chapter 2 agriculture to end famine and to raise future hope -synopsis

 

- Chapter 2 Ending famine with village agriculture and 100% employment of women geared to community building and celebrating nation's market/entrepreneurial advantages

Through the third quarter of the 20th century, famine was the biggest killer of Bangladeshi and Chinese people. 

Fortunately solutions to ending famine in Asia had been demonstrated during the extraordinary peacemaking umbrella Americans had provided to the three far north eastern islands and peninsulars after world war 2.

KNOWHOW NETWORK SAVING THIRD OF WORLD LIVES- BORLAUGS GREEN REVOLUTION. By 1960, Alumni of Borlaug had shown that Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese people could produce up to ten times more rice locally than had been historically understood. The 1960s was decade that Abed had become a rising Asian star at the Anglo-Dutch Shell Oil company, So Abed could easily find out where this green revolution was advancing across Asia. 

Whilst many of the innovations Abed designed into village businesses took extraordinary entrepreneurial creativity, the first business microfranchises he designed for village mothers (in the 100000 person metavillage he had built in 1972 -(see chapter 5) tapped into thie obvious urgent need for local food security actionable by choosing relevant local adaptation.

 Bangladesh’s tropical part of the Asan continent is not an exact enough match for rice productivity with the far  (north) eastern places that had already succeeded with Borlaug-type seed customisation. The nearest successful adaptation had been made by tropical Chinese villagers. They were only too happy to swap their knowhow on how to end starvation with Bangladesh’s knowhow on oral rehydration (see chapter 3). 

It's fascinating to see Abed’s sequential rollout of women-villager led markets – from rice to veggies for vitamins infants need not to stunt, to his first wife’s passion (Aravind) for village crafts including agriculture of silk cultivation targeted at gaining revenues from rich citizens, to what has become 14 value chains that 21^st C brac enterprise lead nationally so village mothers are included in sustainable entrepreneurship. Of course other least developed nations may gain from a different profile of which agricultural markets to integrate around rural communities – but question – do you know of any other developing nations that has generated over half a century  such purposefully matched agricultural development by and for rural families? Why or why not?

Footnote in 2020s Bangladesh has 3 main ways of earning foreign currency:

Agricultural

Garments

Remittances

All three Bangladesh trades exist today because of empowering rural women to hold up half the sky. If economics is a moral let alone an exponentially sustainable profession it should demand truth in understanding how miracles of extreme poverty happened. We can learn from how both Bangladesh and Chinese women were the secret sauce of the greatest human development in history. We shouldn't be surprised that female villagers were loving enough to thank their networking connectors for sharing what life critical bottom-up solutions worked. The sources of finance were completely different. The Asset bases of the nations incomparably different. The mechanisms that changed women's role from breeding to business entrepreneurship were different. But in these extinction-prevention 2020s fake studies of clues we have to human sustainability will compound crises at every national border. The older half of the world bares an extreme responsibility for stopping ideology traps from destroying the younger half of our species. This was one reason why Abed's favorite topic of conversation in the 12 years 50 friends and I were lucky enough to study brac's future history was the collaboration of 100 Asian universities 95.4) whose graduates transparent connectivity would be crucial to diversity mapping- we get one dccade where human and artificial intel comes together: lets make sure the bottom up foundations of that mimic nature not manmade power games. 

chrismacrae.com and fazleabed.com

what would humanity miss if XXX did not exist? I published this new economics/valuation genre "Chartering"  with The Economist Intel Unit while working at the globalisation consultancy of one of the big 5 accountants 1995. Of all the leaders purposes journalists and researchers have chartered in last quarter of century, I value that of Fazle Abed most. 

As discussed here, Fazle's purpose devoted 5 decades 1970s through 010s -  helping a billion poorest women map up to 30 collaboration networks resolving life critical challenges .

chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc and glasgow university union

 If lives are falling apart in your community I can try and help you search which 4 of 30 abed networks you need. At its simplest communities need hi-trust actionable advice/societal action networking on health, education, finance, engineering. They need this advice to have intergenerational consistency for at least 25 years. That's HERSTORY now evidenced by a billion village women!.

FUTURE Now: if my friends maths models since 1984 are correct -we somehow need to apply tech to deep community data everywhere that children are born and co-create first sustainability generation by 2030.

chris macrae short bio- the future of university became an amateur passion after my first job at uk national dev project computer assisted learning university of leeds; i never earned more than a masters in statistics from cambridge's' DAMTP 1973; from 1976 i helped the worlds biggest western companies collect data needed for innovation but from 1990 i became more interested in unique purpose of leaders- co-research with my father (The Economist's Norman Macrae) on 2 books including biography of john von neumann has made our main scientific hypothesis since 1984 that the human race's extinction battle with nature must be collaboratively resolved in 2020s - the most exciting time to be alive and celebrate fellow human beings 

>related knowhow -at normanmacrae.net 15 years of survey on Asia rising 1962-1977 including 2 new economic models rural keynesianism and japan/korea/taiwans CAPITAL coastal belt roadsters redesigning value chains of engineers as borderless sme networks and supercity infrastructures; 60 years of tech entrepreneurial revolution inspired by being biographer of what von neumann expected 100 times "moore" tech would be used to unite humans by 2020s please rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Glasgow & Washington DC

i value transparency of family trees a lot - no need to read remainder of this post unless you love swapping family trees - i am at linkedin UNWOMENS -we offer economist co-blogs on 30 purposes from UN to Green to Health to Black to AI to future to Japan to ,,,  welcome to my (friends & family) networks on yuth-centric learning on human nature worldwide- as diaspora scots i can trace some of my family's biggest concerns back to 1843- at that time my many times great grandfather was the isle of arran's missionary-  an island  which is today 40 minutes ferry ride from mainland scotland, and another 40 mins train ride from glasgow - see economistdiary.com ecop26.com xglasgow.com sdgscotland.com the island probably consisted of 1000 servants 1 priest 1 lord's family; 20000 sheep- like the rest of scotland capitalists from london were ordering scottish lords- you make more money quarterly by raising sheep- thin the scottish people- my family's solution on sundays debate in one large village circle which family wanted to emigrate next and send a message to the lord that he could thin another 5 people if he paid their shipping usually to usa - this happened all over scotland until 80% of scots live worldwide down in london, my hero london-scot james wilson thought empire thinning of people was just one of many human wrongs of white empire alongside slavetrading, genocide, colonising, and controling agricultural markets price so that neighbors such as the irish starved; he started a newspaper, the economist in 1843 as a weekly gossip letter he circulated in londons royal societies at that time quuen victoria with albert was still young in heart and strong in mind- she liked the idea of reigning over commonwealth instead of slavemaking so she gave james a bank licence- charter bank- to go develop financial services by and for the peoples of india out of the then capital calcutta - there in 1860 james died of diarrhea within 9 months of landing -it was to take 83 and 120 years before my family's intelligence directly converged with james wilson legacy lets skip trough my family tree to my father norman macrae after just mentioning that my mothers farher was a 4th generation scot in bombay who had mainly been pharmacists (landmark: kemps corner) but sir ken qualified as a barrister about 20 years after gandhi but found humself as britains chief justice mediating gandhi for 25 years before ken's last job writing up all india's independence- he had been told to assume all india was one nation not the partition into unequal thirds it became; at around the same time gradad was typing up independence dad norman macrae was spending his last days a a teen navigating planes in bomber command stationed in burma; from burma you can look west across bay of bengal to india including kamala harris maternal homeland chennai and central asia, or fly south to singapore and asean , or look to your north to china and where the then enemy japan were ruling the skies thanks to americans dad and so i existed- after being in keynes last class dad got a job at the economist where he was well positioned to take up james wilsons baton; within 15 years dad concluded japan had transformed in the most joyful way- it was developing around 2 new economic models one rural, one supercity which all asia could win-win trade with - thats over 60% of humans most of whom had never seen electricity let alone win-win trading maps for centuries due to colonisation mainly by london- in 1962 president kennedy within a week of dads publication consider japan was cheering on this new future sustaining everyone -kennedy started declaring american interdence as the future of von neumann's legacy-  but within a year both kennedy and medgar evers were assassinated- and quite frankly i cant really understand america's asian policy ever since- fine that not my business- but it most certainly was the business of anyone supporting billion womens empowerment around fazle abed;

... in the 1950s the teenage fazle abed travelled to glasgow to study naval engineering; this was about 65 years after gandhi had gone from indua's north west coast to london to study to be a barrister; fazle abed travelled from what had been india's far north east (recolonised as east pakistan his homeland was to regain independence as bangladesh 1971) : abed graduated from glasgow, went to london , mastered charter accountancy and by the early 1960s he had landed a job at royal dutch shell oil corporation; and by 1970 was his home regions ceo for shell; there a million people died all around him in a cyclone; this changed his life: for half a century he became a collaborative networker of villagers ending poverty -he redesigned disaster relief to be bottom up and aid around microfranchising women village entrepreneurs; - he was thus bringing what james wilson had left off 110 years earlier but in abeds case his bank blocked from serving calcutta reached out to provide the rural keynesianism investmemts and the village microfranchise solutions that up to a billion village mothers used bth to build bangladesh and rural china; how that was done can be learnt or co-created at www.abedmooc.com through 2020s if we want all our children to be the sustainability generation

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 newsletter link  38th year 2025 report only education can save 7.5 billion beings from catastrophe

2021 is also 60th year of recommendation to jfk 1962 that japan now had systems through which all asians - two thirds of humans could rise - thanks to american alumni networks - village agriculture borlaug, better use of machines than west 1760 to 1945 thanks to deming, freedom to win-win trade with korea and taiwan thanks to american peacemaking ... capital belt roadster trade route through hong kong to singapore - world's number 1 superport - the greatest leap forward from britsh colonisation ever seen

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Head of State and Government 1.1 Qatar H.H. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Amir:: bloomberg june 2021 :: 4.6 wise*wish::3.3 vaccination-everyone;5.6 :: ( 6 world trade infrastructure ; 5g labs -ai smart gov; .. world trade infra collab aiib2021 oct ; big investment fund collab) Reeta Roy President and CEO Mastercard Foundation just donted billion dollars to pan africa vaccine fun top 3 partner of brac in africa; tufts alumn; sponsor of quadit mit conferences top funds managers Michael R. Bloomberg Founder of Bloomberg L.P. & Bloomberg Philanthropies and Three-term Mayor of New York City Ray Dalio Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer Bridgewater Associates Laurence D. Fink Chairman and CEO BlackRock Stephen A. Schwarzman Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder Blackstone Jin Liqun President Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank David M. Rubenstein Co-Founder and Co-Chairman The Carlyle Group Jenny Johnson President and CEO Franklin Templeton Sergio P. Ermotti Chairman Swiss Re Thomas Gottstein CEO Credit Suisse Henry Fernandez Chairman and CEO MSCI global esg ratings agency   other Qatar speakers H.E. Sheikh Abdulla bin Saoud Al Thani Governor Qatar Central Bank H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Chairperson Qatar Museums, Doha Film Institute, Reach Out to Asia, and Qatar Leadership Centre H.E. Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani Vice Chairperson and CEO Qatar Foundation H.E. Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al Thani Chairman Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry H.E. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani Former Prime Minister The State of Qatar H.E. Sheikha Hanadi bint Nasser Al Thani Vice Chair NBK Holdings H.E. Sheikh Dr. Khalid bin T. Al Thani Chairman of the Board of Directors of Qatar International Islamic Bank Chairman of Ezdan Holding Group H.E. Khalid bin Khalifa Al Thani Chairman Qatari Diar H.E. Akbar al-Baker Group CEO Qatar Airways Hussain Ibrahim al-Fardan Chairman Alfardan Group Dana al-Fardan Composer, Songwriter, Singer, and Symphonic Artist Aisha Hussein al-Fardan Personal Advisor to the Chairman, Alfardan Group Holding Vice Chairwoman Qatari Businesswomen Association H.E. Saad bin Sherida al-Kaabi Minister of State for Energy Affairs The State of Qatar President and CEO Qatar Petroleum H.E. Dr. Hanan al-Kuwari Minister of Public Health The State of Qatar Managing Director Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) H.E. Mr Ali bin Ahmed al-Kuwari Minister of Commerce and Industry and Acting Minister of Finance H.E. Mansoor bin Ebrahim al-Mahmoud CEO Qatar Investment Authority Eng. Mohamed al-Sadah CEO Hassad Food H.E. Ahmad al-Sayed Minister of State, The State of Qatar Chairman of the Board of Directors Qatar Free Zones Authority H.E. Sheikh Ali Alwaleed Al-Thani Chief Executive Officer Investment Promotion Agency Qatar (IPA Qatar) H.E. Hassan al-Thawadi Secretary General, Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy The State of Qatar     other heads of state H.E. Patrick Achi Prime Minister Republic of Côte d'Ivoire H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President The Republic of Turkey H.E. Irakli Garibashvili Prime Minister of Georgia The Hon. Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh The Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP Prime Minister of the United Kingdom H.E. Paul Kagame President The Republic of Rwanda H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa President Republic of South Africa H.E. Macky Sall President The Republic of Senegal H.E. Armen Sarkissian President The Republic of Armenia   other keynotes Dr. Jeffrey Cheah Founder and Chairman Sunway Group vc sunay university malaysia Natarajan Chandrasekaran Chairman of the Board Tata Sons Mukesh Ambani Chairman and Managing Director Reliance Industries Dr. S. Jaishankar Minister of External Affairs The Republic of India Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown Former Prime Minister The United Kingdom Baroness Shriti Vadera Chair Prudential plc, Amina J. Mohammed Deputy Secretary-General United Nations Lord Mandelson Chairman Global Counsel Lord Gerry Grimstone Minister for Investment, Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy The United Kingdom Vera Songwe United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa Mo Ibrahim Founder and Chair Mo Ibrahim Foundation Hillary Rodham Clinton 67th Secretary of State The United States of America Baroness Valerie Amos Master of University College University of Oxford Guo Ping Deputy Chairman, Rotating Chairman Huawei Changpeng Zhao Founder and CEO Binance Ruth Porat CFO Alphabet and Google Tom Barrack Founder Colony Capital David Beckham Kumar Mangalam Birla Chairman Aditya Birla Group Ursula Burns Former Chairman and CEO Xerox Corporation Former Chairman and CEO VEON Ltd. David Calhoun President and CEO The Boeing Company Anthony Capuano CEO Marriott International Adrian Cheng CEO and Executive Vice-Chairman New World Development Michael Chertoff Former Secretary United States Department of Homeland Security Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Chertoff Group Aliko Dangote Founder and President/Chief Executive Dangote Group Nigeria Mohammed Dewji President MeTL Tanzania Dr. Herbert Diess CEO Volkswagen AG Mark Dixon Founder and CEO IWG Didier Drogba Vice President Peace and Sport Börje Ekholm President and CEO Ericsson Group Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo Managing Director Ooredoo Group Senait Fisseha Director of International Programs, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation; Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Michigan Medical School Bruce Flatt CEO Brookfield Asset Management Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia Founder and Executive Chair Snoop Luis Gallego CEO International Airlines Group Ignacio Galán Chairman and CEO Iberdrola Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director General of the World Health Organization Ivan Glasenberg CEO Glencore Dr. Faruk Güler CEO ESBAŞ-Ege Serbest Bölge Kurucu ve İşleticisi A.Ş Atifete Jahjaga Founder and Chair Jahjaga Foundation 4th President of the Republic of Kosovo Dr. Paula Kahumbu CEO WildlifeDirect Graça Machel Chair Graça Machel Trust Yvonne Manzi Makolo CEO RwandAir Roberto Marques Executive Chairman and Group CEO Natura &Co Rita Marques Secretary of State for Tourism The Republic of Portugal Blythe Masters Industry Partner, Motive Partners CEO, Motive Capital Corp. Sunil Bharti Mittal Founder and Chairman Bharti Enterprises Steven T. Mnuchin 77th Secretary of the Treasury The United States of America Dan Morehead CEO Pantera Capital Management Louise Mushikiwabo Secretary General Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie Dr. James Mwangi kenya Group Managing Director and CEO Equity Group Holdings Plc Executive Chairman Equity Group Foundation Dr. John Nkengasong Director Africa CDC Mike Novogratz Founder, CEO and Chairman Galaxy Digital Adebayo Ogunlesi Chairman and Managing Partner Global Infrastructure Partners Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Director-General World Trade Organization Jim Ovia Founder and Chairman Zenith Bank General David H. Petraeus (U.S. Army, Ret.) Chairman KKR Global Institute Angelique Pouponneau CEO SeyCCAT Patrick Pouyanné Chairman of the Board and CEO TotalEnergies Sylvestre Radegonde Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism The Republic of Seychelles Matthias Rebellius Member of the Managing Board Siemens AG CEO Siemens Smart Infrastructure Emmanuel Roman CEO PIMCO Daleep Singh Deputy National Security Advisor The United States of America Rob Speyer President and CEO Tishman Speyer Jes Staley Group Chief Executive Barclays Barry Sternlicht Chairman and CEO Starwood Capital Group Lawrence H. Summers Charles W. Eliot University Professor Harvard University Jane Sun CEO Trip.com Group Fred Swaniker Founder and CEO African Leadership Group Masai Ujiri President and General Manager Toronto Raptors Ben van Beurden CEO Royal Dutch Shell Jacopo Venturini CEO Valentino Amb. Melanne Verveer Co-Founder and Chair Seneca Women Axel A. Weber Chairman of the Board of Directors UBS Group AG Bill Winters Group Chief Executive Standard Chartered Bank Darren Woods Chairman and CEO Exxon Mobil Corporation Yichen Zhang Chairman and CEO CITIC Capital Ferit Şahenk Chairman Doğuş Group Darius Adamczyk Chairman and CEO Honeywell Noubar Afeyan Founder and CEO Flagship Pioneering....

Welcoming Remarks Bloomberg Speaker June 21, 2021 - 08:04 AM (UTC-4) Welcoming Address from Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. & Bloomberg Philanthropies and Three-term Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. & Bloomberg Philanthropies and Three-term Mayor of... Read More Speaker June 21, 2021 - 08:08 AM (UTC-4) Opening Address from His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar Speaker June 21, 2021 - 08:15 AM (UTC-4) H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa In conversation with Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum H.E. Cyril... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 21, 2021 - 08:25 AM (UTC-4) H.E. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda In conversation with Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum H.E. Paul... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 21, 2021 - 08:40 AM (UTC-4) H.E. Mr. Armen Sarkissian, President of the Republic of Armenia In conversation with Simone Foxman, Middle East Correspondent, Bloomberg Television SpeakerSpeaker June 21, 2021 - 08:55 AM (UTC-4) Redefining Business A titan of global business, Mukesh Ambani shares his vision for a post pandemic world... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 21, 2021 - 09:05 AM (UTC-4) A New Economic Blueprint - Restructuring the Global Economy More than a decade after the 2008 financial crash, its dark legacy hangs over the... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 21, 2021 - 09:35 AM (UTC-4) A Conversation with Steven T. Mnuchin, 77th United States Secretary of the Treasury The pandemic sent the world economy into free fall last year. Fifteen months later, we... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 21, 2021 - 09:50 AM (UTC-4) Vaccines: From Nationalism to Equity While the global vaccination campaign is well underway in many wealthy countries, many poorer nations... Read More June 21, 2021 - 09:55 AM (UTC-4) An Address from Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization Speaker June 21, 2021 - 10:00 AM (UTC-4) The Future of Vaccines in Africa In a groundbreaking public-private partnership, Africa CDC is teaming up with the Mastercard Foundation to... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 21, 2021 - 10:15 AM (UTC-4) New Age of Nationalism In the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, “vaccine nationalism” is becoming a statement of power,... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 21, 2021 - 10:35 AM (UTC-4) Musical Performance: Akoya Akoya brings the heritage of Qatari folk music to life in an original piece by... Read More June 21, 2021 - 10:45 AM (UTC-4) Close of Session One Session One Highlights: Leadership in a Post-Pandemic World Your local time: 12:00 AM (UTC-4) – 02:00 AM (UTC-4) June 22, 2021 - 12:00 AM (UTC-4) Leadership in a Post-Pandemic World Join us to experience highlights from Day One of the Qatar Economic Forum Session Two: Technology Advanced Your local time: 02:00 AM (UTC-4) – 05:45 AM (UTC-4) After the most significant year of digital transformation in recent history, we take a closer look at permanent changes to the human-technology nexus. June 22, 2021 - 02:00 AM (UTC-4) Welcoming Remarks Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum Speaker June 22, 2021 - 02:05 AM (UTC-4) The A-Z of Digital The rapid shift to all things digital is stoking business expectations as well as personal... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 02:15 AM (UTC-4) Business and Behavior Transformed A generational trauma like the pandemic has forced everyone—rich, poor, young and old—to reassess their... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 02:25 AM (UTC-4) Transforming Through the Pandemic The pandemic brought global business to a halt and forced business leaders everywhere to think... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 02:35 AM (UTC-4) Work Shifting It’s “new” for now. But will it become “normal” going forward? The pandemic transformed workplaces,... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 03:00 AM (UTC-4) Potential and Perils of a Hyper-Connected World The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and 5G are helping pandemic-hit businesses transform into digitally... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 03:20 AM (UTC-4) Counting the Cost of Mega-Hacks The latest ransomware attacks are a wake-up call to organizations all over the world. With... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 03:30 AM (UTC-4) How Safe is Cyberspace? The era of the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 is upon us. What can... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 03:40 AM (UTC-4) Coining Crypto We talk Bitcoin, Doge and Elon Musk with the founder of the world’s biggest crypto... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 03:50 AM (UTC-4) The Fintech Future We look to the fintech-powered future of banking. In conversation with Sonali Basak, Financial Correspondent,... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 04:05 AM (UTC-4) The Crypto Brief We get the latest from the fast-changing world of cryptocurrencies. In conversation with Sonali Basak, Financial... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 05:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Maximizing ESG in Extractive Industries Investors, consumers, and extractive companies are focused on reducing the environmental and social footprint of... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 05:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Global Adoption of Cryptocurrencies As interest and investment in cryptocurrencies continues to rise, the question of how to create... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 05:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Building on Blockchain Security As the world increasingly relies on distributed security solutions, the technology protecting our data must... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 05:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Legacy of Sporting Mega-Events From ancient Greece to modern-day Qatar, sports competitions have been a beacon of civilizations for... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 05:45 AM (UTC-4) Close of Session Two Session Three: Power and Trade Flows Your local time: 07:00 AM (UTC-4) – 11:30 AM (UTC-4) 2021 is a fresh start for many geopolitical alliances and trade relationships. We gather major international power brokers to share their visions for the way forward. June 22, 2021 - 07:00 AM (UTC-4) Welcoming Remarks Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum Speaker June 22, 2021 - 07:00 AM (UTC-4) At the Heart of Global Trade Sitting at the crossroads of Asia, Africa and Europe, Qatar is deeply invested in smooth... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 07:20 AM (UTC-4) Global Trade Revival We find out how to bump global trade up to pre-virus levels and preview the... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 07:25 AM (UTC-4) The Chains That Bind Us Lord Mandelson tells us what’s next for global supply chains in a post-pandemic world. In... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 07:35 AM (UTC-4) African Trade Transformation In conversation with Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum Aliko Dangote,... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 07:45 AM (UTC-4) H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey Speaker June 22, 2021 - 07:55 AM (UTC-4) The Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Speaker June 22, 2021 - 08:00 AM (UTC-4) H.E. Patrick Achi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire H.E. Patrick Achi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire Speaker June 22, 2021 - 08:10 AM (UTC-4) The Hon. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh The Hon. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Speaker June 22, 2021 - 08:15 AM (UTC-4) The Future of Air Travel From flying high to parked on the tarmac, Covid-19 grounded thousands of aircraft. Once-bustling airports... Read More June 22, 2021 - 08:20 AM (UTC-4) Back in the Air We took flying for granted. The pandemic grounded airlines, locked us in our homes, and... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 08:50 AM (UTC-4) Firestarter Address How do we reform the world's governing structure to address challenges that are global, from... Read More Speaker June 22, 2021 - 08:55 AM (UTC-4) A New Normal: The View from Qatar Located at the crossroads of three continents, Qatar occupies a perch that gives it a... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 09:05 AM (UTC-4) Reenergizing Globalization Countries all over the world have set up special economic zones to maximize the benefits... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 09:20 AM (UTC-4) Investing Across Borders For the investors of today, the world is your oyster is not... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 09:35 AM (UTC-4) Covid-19 and Governance in Africa The coronavirus pandemic may push more than 60 million Africans into absolute poverty. But beyond... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 09:40 AM (UTC-4) At the Nexus of Economy and Security As the world recovers from the pandemic shock, issues of national security and the global... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 09:45 AM (UTC-4) India in the Quad In conversation with Jeanette Rodrigues, South Asia Managing Editor, Bloomberg News Dr. S. Jaishankar,... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 09:55 AM (UTC-4) The New Security Paradigm Sea lanes, sky corridors and terrestrial roads are the arteries that power world trade and... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 10:45 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Reliability in Renewable Energy More countries are adopting renewable energy technologies as part of their power generation strategies and... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 10:45 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Investing in Traditional vs. Emerging Markets Emerging markets, which have greater familiarity with instability and uncertainty, have been able to effectively... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 10:45 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Virtual Payment Technologies As contactless solutions, mobile banking apps, and a growing number of “new ways to pay”... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 10:45 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Art in the Tech Era Art is no longer simply a Monet hanging in a gallery in London or New... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 11:30 AM (UTC-4) Close of Session Three Session Four: A Sustainable World Your local time: 11:45 AM (UTC-4) – 02:30 PM (UTC-4) Shining a light on the intersection of capitalism, energy and the environment, we profile the people who can help us transition to a more sustainable global economy. June 22, 2021 - 11:45 AM (UTC-4) Welcoming Remarks Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum Speaker June 22, 2021 - 11:46 AM (UTC-4) Gas King As the world transitions from oil and coal to cleaner energy, Qatar is investing billions... Read More June 22, 2021 - 11:50 AM (UTC-4) Energy Shifts We profile the energy executives who are helping us transition to the new energy economy. ... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 12:25 PM (UTC-4) The New Commodity Economy Global green economy plans are set to fuel a new commodities supercycle. We identify how... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 12:35 PM (UTC-4) Electric Digital Mobility At a time when the world turned upside down, sales of electric cars defied gravity.... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 12:45 PM (UTC-4) Slowbalization As an ongoing debate heats up about whether nationalism or globalization will define the next... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 12:55 PM (UTC-4) Firestarter Address Matthias Rebellius, Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG; CEO, Siemens Smart Infrastructure ... Read More Speaker June 22, 2021 - 01:00 PM (UTC-4) Powering Sustainability In conversation with Kailey Leinz, Host, Bloomberg Television Ignacio Galán, Chairman and CEO, Iberdrola ... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 01:20 PM (UTC-4) Qatar’s Culture: Past, Present and Future H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson, Qatar Museums, Doha... Read More Speaker June 22, 2021 - 01:25 PM (UTC-4) Sustainability Champions From Africa to Asia, from America to Australia, entrepreneurs and activists are leading the charge... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 01:30 PM (UTC-4) The Green Recovery The future of the planet and its people hangs in balance, The United Nations has... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 01:45 PM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Water Scarcity and Solutions By 2025, as much as two-thirds of the world’s population will be suffering from a... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 01:45 PM (UTC-4) Roundtable: The Return of Inflation As countries around the world develop large economic stimulus packages to counter the devastating economic... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 01:45 PM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Data Gathering from the Skies Access to targeted information gathered from space is an economic game-changer—from agriculture to border management... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 01:45 PM (UTC-4) Roundtable: The Digital Future of Sport As global internet connectivity explodes, and more people have access to televised or streamed sporting... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 22, 2021 - 02:30 PM (UTC-4) Close of Session Four Session Five: The Changing Consumer Your local time: 02:00 AM (UTC-4) – 05:20 AM (UTC-4) Lockdowns forced people to go online for practically everything. Businesses responded by enhancing digital offerings, drawing more customers to the web. Now, it’s hard to see people returning to pre-virus behavior; yet some consumers are doing just that. We look to what the future holds for commerce. June 23, 2021 - 02:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: 5G’s Impact on Commerce Globally, 5G rollout is gathering pace. With the predicted creation of over $13 trillion in... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 02:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: The Internet of Things in Health Emergencies In a socially distanced but digitally connected world, the Internet of Things (IoT) has played... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 02:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Manufacturing in Developing Markets The establishment and boom of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ), through the gradual shift... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 02:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Education and the Digital Gender Gap As we enter an era of unprecedented digital transformation and innovation, addressing the digital gender... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 03:00 AM (UTC-4) Welcoming Remarks Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum Speaker June 23, 2021 - 03:02 AM (UTC-4) At the Edge of Real Estate Some investors have tight parameters on what they can and can’t do. But Tom Barrack... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 03:30 AM (UTC-4) Millennial Consumers Consumers born between 1981 and 1996 have the biggest buying power today. Coming of age... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 03:35 AM (UTC-4) Real Estate in a Virtual World Offices and malls were long buoyed by the steady flow of commuters and shoppers. With... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 04:05 AM (UTC-4) Sustainable Smart Cities In conversation with Haidi Stroud-Watts, Anchor, ‘Daybreak Australia’ and ‘Daybreak Asia’, Bloomberg Television Dr.... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 04:10 AM (UTC-4) Guardian of the Sea He hails from a renowned pearl-merchant family in Qatar. He has played, and continues to... Read More Speaker June 23, 2021 - 04:15 AM (UTC-4) A New Brand of Fashion The campaign for Valentino’s latest collection is inspired by empathy and celebrates a society with... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 04:25 AM (UTC-4) In the Eyes of the Beholder The beauty industry is thriving, even in these pandemic days. Taylor Riggs finds out the... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 04:30 AM (UTC-4) The Economics of Ecology and Public Health A shared destiny defines the health of the planet and the health of its people.... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 04:35 AM (UTC-4) The Future of Travel and Tourism Millions of jobs and billions of dollars are at stake. The travel and tourism industry... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 05:05 AM (UTC-4) Islands in the Sun The Seychelles, an archipelago of 115 islands off the east coast of Africa, earns most... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 05:10 AM (UTC-4) Bovine Heroes Prior to the blockade, Qatar imported 80% of its fresh milk from Saudi Arabia. Overnight,... Read More June 23, 2021 - 05:15 AM (UTC-4) On a Food Security Mission We get the latest from Hassad Food’s goal of meeting 60% of Qatar’s food demand. ... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 05:20 AM (UTC-4) H.E. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal H.E. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal Speaker June 23, 2021 - 05:25 AM (UTC-4) H.E. Irakli Garibashvili, Prime Minister of Georgia H.E. Irakli Garibashvili, Prime Minister of Georgia Speaker June 23, 2021 - 05:30 AM (UTC-4) Close of Session Five Session Six: Markets and Investing Your local time: 07:00 AM (UTC-4) – 11:00 AM (UTC-4) The hunt for growth will always remain. But can investors help shape a more resilient global economy? June 23, 2021 - 07:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Telecom & Social Impact From mobile banking to online education to telemedicine to local commerce, the global penetration of... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 07:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Global Healthcare Supply Chains The last 18 months have highlighted the challenges in developing, securing, and delivering vaccines, drugs... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 07:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Fast-Moving Consumer Goods The last 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic have fundamentally reshaped what FMCG consumers buy... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 07:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: STEM Education and the Economy As countries around the world continue to transition from agricultural, manufacturing, or hydrocarbon-based economies to... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 08:00 AM (UTC-4) Welcoming Remarks Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum Speaker June 23, 2021 - 08:02 AM (UTC-4) Investing for a New Age Two of the world’s top investors share their global market outlook for the year ahead... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 08:25 AM (UTC-4) Powering Global Finance Heeding the lessons of the post-2008 recovery, authorities and policy-makers chart a way forward for... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 08:45 AM (UTC-4) The Global Outlook The world’s top investors share what they look for to get the biggest bang for... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 09:15 AM (UTC-4) The Liquidity and Sustainability Facility We find out how the UN’s new Liquidity Sustainability Facility will revolutionize Africa’s access to... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 09:25 AM (UTC-4) Investing with Purpose It has almost become a mantra in boardrooms and across the world: do well by... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 09:55 AM (UTC-4) An Entrepreneur-Led Recovery In conversation with Francine Lacqua, Anchor, Bloomberg Television Jes Staley, Group Chief Executive, Barclays ... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 10:05 AM (UTC-4) Avoiding an Unequal Recovery In conversation with Anna Edwards, Anchor, Bloomberg Television Shriti Vadera, Chair, Prudential plc. ... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 10:15 AM (UTC-4) The Outlook from Asia In conversation with Shery Ahn, Anchor, Bloomberg Television Yichen Zhang, Chairman and CEO, CITIC... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 10:20 AM (UTC-4) An Africa Recovery Plan In conversation with Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum Dr. James... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 10:25 AM (UTC-4) From Rwanda to the World In conversation with Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Fourm Clare Akamanzi,... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 10:35 AM (UTC-4) Rethinking Investment in Africa Investment flows into sub-Saharan Africa contracted in 2020 and before that, in 2019, as the... Read More Speaker June 23, 2021 - 10:40 AM (UTC-4) Close of Session Six Session Seven: A more inclusive world Your local time: 11:00 AM (UTC-4) – 02:30 PM (UTC-4) Turning the page on a year of historic tumult, we explore ideas for healing fissures in post-pandemic society. June 23, 2021 - 11:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Space-Based Internet Multiple launches of satellites will provide high speed connectivity anywhere on land, at sea, and... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 11:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Health Insurance After Covid The last 18 months have fundamentally challenged public and private healthcare systems alike. The standard... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 11:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: AI in Future Manufacturing As AI and machine-driven decision making continue to be adopted across manufacturing assembly lines, the... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 11:00 AM (UTC-4) Roundtable: Alternative Infrastructures for Education The 2020-2021 academic years have been like none other. From primary school to postgraduate, many... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 12:00 PM (UTC-4) Welcoming Remarks Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum Speaker June 23, 2021 - 12:01 PM (UTC-4) A Bold Agenda for Female Leadership The global pandemic and its resulting economic crisis are impacting women differently – and worse... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 12:30 PM (UTC-4) Being the First The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company shares her unique take on... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 12:40 PM (UTC-4) Empowering the Balkans In conversation with Jan Bratanic, Reporter, Bloomberg Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 12:45 PM (UTC-4) Firestarter Address Aisha Hussein al-Fardan, Personal Advisor to the Chairman, Alfardan Group Holding; Vice Chairwoman, Qatari... Read More Speaker June 23, 2021 - 12:50 PM (UTC-4) World Cup 2022 and Beyond Sport, with its inherent tribalism, brings the world together only for individuals to stand apart.... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 01:05 PM (UTC-4) The Transformational Power of Sport We talk to football icon David Beckham about his unique journey from player to Inter... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 01:20 PM (UTC-4) The Big Game Player On the pitch, Didier Drogba was the arch tormentor of his opponents. Off the pitch,... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 01:30 PM (UTC-4) The Giants of Africa Masai Ujiri is uniting the youth of Africa through basketball. We find... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 01:40 PM (UTC-4) H.E. Félix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo H.E. Félix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Speaker June 23, 2021 - 01:45 PM (UTC-4) New African Leaders In conversation with Yinka Ibukun, West Africa Bureau Chief, Bloomberg Fred Swaniker, Founder and... Read More Speaker June 23, 2021 - 01:50 PM (UTC-4) The Test for Global Education The results are in: Covid-19 has led to sharply reduced learning gains; widening racial disparities... Read More SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 02:10 PM (UTC-4) Empowering The Next Generation Graça Machel shares her insight and ideas on how to build a better tomorrow for... Read More SpeakerSpeaker June 23, 2021 - 02:20 PM (UTC-4) Closing Remarks Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum Speaker June 23, 2021 - 02:21 PM (UTC-4) Musical Performance: Indigo As a finale to the 2021 Qatar Economic Forum, Dana al-Fardan performs selections from her... Read More Speaker June 23, 2021 - 02:30 PM (UTC-4) Close of Qatar Economic Forum 2021

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